Pressed-steel wheel for automobiles



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WHEEL FOR UTOIIIBLES.

Application filed September 12, 1919. Serial No. 323,311.1..

To all ywhom tmc/y concern.'

Be -it known that L' VILLIAM EnesTUs iliLLL-xsrs, a citizenptthe United States., and residentot Chicago, in. the county of Cook and Stateol' Illinois, have invented a.

.new yand usctulmprovement in Pressed- I. Steel/Vheels for' "Automobiles, of which the following is a specification. I My invention relates to the class of wheels that' are used for automobile trucks butmay lie-used for other purposes as Well.

. 'elevation ofthe Wheel.

l `igure 2 is a central cross section.

f Figure-3 isa planet' a piece of the rim.

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lli-sure l is a cross section through the rim, showing amodified form.

Figure 5 is a section onA line 5-5 of Fig- Iure1.f f if Figure 6 isa cross section through the rim showing another modification. I

-Figure Z-is asection of one of the eyelets usedin holdin the discs together.

In the drawing 1 indicates a solid rubber tire -t'or a truck Wheel and 2 indicates the metal base of the tire. rThese are of the ordinary type commonly used on trucks and are no part `of my invention.

l prefer to make the web of my Wheel out of two pressed steel dises, substantially alike as is indicated by 3 and these are secured to the hub 4, embrace a tread band 5 and are secured to each other by the thimbles or eyelet rings 6. Preferably, the hub 4 is made. Wlth :in integral fiange 7 and a flange 8 which is :first secured to one of the discs 3 and then iassed over the hub with -such pressure that it is firmly seated. Each flange has an annular lateral rib 9 fittingr closely in a. co-- :acting rib groove 10 in the corresponding disc 3. The tread band 5 is provided with a groove 11 and after the parts are assembled the edges of the discs are pressed into the ,groove 12', securing the arts at this point here they are preferably further secured by known weldingI processes, fused metal being` indicated atl. By this means the parts :are so secure y united that-the union will sustain heavy pressure employed in putting the .fire in place.-

l`he type of tire here shown upon the wheel is known as the pressed on type and to prevent accidental displacement l provide Jdie staples let which. are passed through holes 15 at intervals around therim of the Wheel as indicated by Figure 1. ln this Figure l only a portion of the tire is shown.

The staples 14 are located in small recesses 16, which are punched and pressed inthe rims of' the discs in a mannerto cause the metal of the discs at the points 17 to bear directly under the edges of the rim band 5 and thus support the latter from'inward depression. lilhen desired l Weld this seam along the joints 17 as is indicated by 18 and this Welding is done by a similar means to that employed at 13. iVhen desired l roll or press in the sides of the discs as indicated at 19, Figure 4.-, in'place of the recesses 16. ln cases Where the staples 14 are not used ll make the tread no Wider than the tire base as is indicated by Figure 6.

En assembling. my Wheel the twodiscs are secured to the flanges 7, 8, respectively., by Welding at 20, 21, 223, 24, although other Ways of fastening,q may be used. All the parts except the tire and itsbase are then placed in a die press, in proper sequence and forced over the hub, the rim band, and-the. eyelets 6, the latter being then riveted. The edges 12 are then secured as before noted and Welds are made at 18, completing the assembly.

The holes in the eyelets 6 are large enough to', allow a chain to be threaded through them and around the tire for the purpose of fastening anti-skid devices. The spaces between A the eyelet holes indicated by 22, simulate the appearance ot' spokes and likewise greatly stillen the discs because of the corrugated effect.

By fastening my discs to the hub 5, along the annular ribs 9 of the hub flanges andthe ribs 10 of the discs, l obtain a much larger cross sectional area of metal of the discs Where they join the hub than would be the case were to make the fastening nearer the body of the hub. Disc Wheels made of light sections of metal in the form of discs usually tail Where the join the hub as not sufficient cross sectiona 'area is obtained here unless the discs are made heavier than they need be to accommodate the service in the region or the rim. The use of the rim, tire band, and hub flanges with the discs attached to the outer marginal portions of the latter, distributes the load through an unusually Les' lll@

large discl area and gives a large area of disc and hub contact for making a secure union, and thus permits the safe use ot relatively thin disc stock.

The rim band placed in my wheel as shown, becomes a stiil'ening arc and secured as indicated becomes a unita i member alo`n with the discs, thus affording a very rigli` tread for the Wheel. l

he eyelets, take the place of rivets or other fastenings sometimes used in disc wheels at this region of the wheel, and they ao-rd the means of fastening the anti-skid chains as before mentioned.

- The shoulders 17 of the recesses 16, or the recesses or grooves 19 transmit direct strut loads to the inside of the rim 5 in addition to such strains as are transmitted over the outside of the rim. These features together with the tension strains taken up by the outer ianges of the discs, make my Wheel a strut and tension wheel combined, or inother words,-the Wheel has both the compressionresistance of' a wheel with rigid spokes or disc and the tension-resistance of a Wheel having light Wire spokes.

What I claim is 1. The combination with a p-eripherally flanged hub and a metal tread band adapted to receive a metal tire base of ordinary type and having an external central peripheral groove, of tWo oppositely turned symmetrically similar metal disks engaging the hub in different planes, respectively, marginally engaging in said groove and secured therein by direct Welding.

2. The combination with ahuband a broad relatively thick metal tread band centrally grooved peripherally and adapted to support a common metal tire base, of two Wheel maarre disks spaced at the hub,` converging and 'oined together at'some distance from the ub, diverging again, ianged inwardly over said band, bent marginally into said groove and integrally united by primarily 'fused met-al filling the groove. v

3. A wheel having two spaced by a thick metal, tire supporting tread band each disc being .provided with portions bent laterally into contact with the interior and exterior surfaces of the correspending marginal portions of said yband welded to the latter and centrally spaced by two rigid hub flanges.

4. A Wheel having two discs secured together around a peripheral zone, a hub zone, and an intermediate zone, the peripheral union being through a tire-supporting metal tread band embraced by and Welded to each disc, the hub union through a hub having flanges with lateral annular ribs embraced by disc ribs, and the intermediate union through eyelet rivets.

5. In a Wheel of the class described, the combination with a hub having acircumferdiscs 'marginally f ential fiange immovable with vrespect to the hub and a pressed-on flange spaced from ythe immovable flange, both flanges being provided With lateralannular peripheral ribs, and two discs fittingl over and welded to said ribs and peripheral y connected by a member welded to each.

Si ed at Chicago, in the county of Cook and btate of illinois., this ninth day of September, 1919.

B. J. BERNHARD, JOHN-B. Jnrr'nnson. 

